hperrin
@hperrin@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Switch 2 Tutorial Game Welcome Tour Costs $10, Nintendo Explains Why It's Not a Free Console Pack-In - IGN 7 hours ago:
I was on the fence about Switch 2, leaning toward not getting one. This just solidified that position. No way I’m paying for something that charges for the instruction manual.
- Comment on Open-Source is Just That 1 day ago:
I agree that Discord blows, but it’s what my users use, and it’s free. Maybe there are free Matrix servers I could use instead of hosting it myself, but the problem is still that my users want a Discord server. Basically the same reason I use GitHub. It at least doesn’t blow, like Discord, but it’s not open. I’d prefer to use something else, but I’d get less user interaction. Hopefully once Codeberg’s federation is complete, that will change. Thank you for being kind. :)
- Comment on Developing a self-hosted alternative to Google Keep 1 day ago:
Power Operations -> Po Op -> Poop
Perfect.
- Comment on Developing a self-hosted alternative to Google Keep 1 day ago:
Sounds nice. I would use it. Keep is one of the last Google services I still use.
- Comment on Developing a self-hosted alternative to Google Keep 1 day ago:
Naming software is one of the hardest problems in all of software development.
- Comment on New Jellyfin Server/Web release: 10.10.7 2 days ago:
My friend who’s been praising Plex for years and making fun of me for using Jellyfin instead just told me the other day he’s thinking about switching. It’s their new subscription fee that finally did it. xD
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 2 days ago:
New GPUs don’t work on Linux? Where did you get that idea from?
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 2 days ago:
I got ahead of the game a little bit by switching to Linux in 2008.
- Comment on Open-Source is Just That 2 days ago:
Good article. As an open source maintainer, I agree. The majority of interactions I have from my users are positive, but every once in a while, some entitled asshat does make unreasonable demands. I usually respond with a stern dressing down, but respectfully. If they continue, I’ll block them from whatever channel.
- Comment on “It Wouldn’t Be Surprising If, in Two Years’ Time, There Was a Film Made Completely Through AI”: Says Hayao Miyazaki’s Own Son 2 days ago:
And it will be absolute trash.
- Comment on How do you answer the question "What's new with you?" when nothing happens in your life? 2 days ago:
I can’t remember the last time nothing has been going on in my life. It sounds wonderful.
- Comment on How does one snap their fingers? 2 days ago:
Put your fingers together like so:
Then push your thumb to the right while pressing your middle finger down hard. Let your thumb slide out, releasing your middle finger, which will snap against your hand like this:
Your middle finger hitting your hand is what makes the snapping noise, so the harder your press your middle finger down, the louder the snap will be.
- Comment on What actually came first? The chicken or the egg? 4 days ago:
Maybe if you examine the hex codes, but what if it’s paint? And what do you call that color in the middle? Is it green? Or red? Or neither? Something in between? What if the lighting conditions mess with it?
Species aren’t measured digitally, so the metaphor isn’t perfect, but I hope you can see what I mean by it. My bigger point is that speciation happens on a population level, not an individual level. Parents don’t have children of a different species. Populations evolve into different species.
- Comment on What actually came first? The chicken or the egg? 4 days ago:
Ok, let me put it another way. Green and red are clearly different colors, right? But if you make a gradient where the green smoothly transitions to the red, there isn’t one single point where it changes from “green” to “red”. This doesn’t mean that the two colors on the ends aren’t completely different colors, it means that when you look at every pixel, they’re almost exactly the same color as the pixel next to them.
Different species exist. Speciation is a thing. I’m not claiming otherwise. But creatures don’t birth a species other than their own. It takes many many many generations over eons of time for a population to speciate. Speciation is something that happens to populations, not individuals.
- Comment on What actually came first? The chicken or the egg? 4 days ago:
Just because it’s a saying doesn’t mean it’s true for everything. Every child is the same species as its parent.
- Comment on What actually came first? The chicken or the egg? 4 days ago:
And what I’m telling you is that there was no first chicken, just like there was no first Spanish speaker. Species don’t evolve that way.
- Comment on What actually came first? The chicken or the egg? 4 days ago:
No, that is 100% not how evolution works. No individual has ever laid an egg of a different species. One mutation doesn’t make a non-chicken a chicken. Chickens evolved from their ancestors slowly over many many generations. It’s like how you can’t change one word and make a language a different language, but if you change enough words, it becomes a different language.
Let me put it another way. If you take a modern chicken back in time 10,000 years, it could probably breed with a chicken from then. But if you take it back maybe 20,000 years, maybe it can’t breed with a chicken from then. But if you take the chicken from 10kya, it could breed with the chicken from 20kya. So are they all the same species? Are they different species? Are they all chickens?
Humans like to put things in little boxes with clear delineations, but that’s not how nature works. Species don’t come to be from one mutation. They evolve as the accumulation of many many mutations over many many generations. There’s no point at which you can say that child is a different species than their parent.
- Comment on What actually came first? The chicken or the egg? 4 days ago:
Eggs predate chickens. Chicken eggs evolved simultaneously with chickens. There was no first chicken, nor first chicken egg.
- Comment on What steps do you take to secure your server and your selfhosted services? 6 days ago:
One thing I do is instead of having an open SSH port, I have an OpenVPN server that I’ll connect to, then SSH to the host from within the network. Then, if someone hacks into the network, they still won’t have SSH access.
- Comment on How does Google make money from Gmail, the google calendar, drive or other services when used with third party front ends? 1 week ago:
I pay $10 a month to Wikipedia.
- Comment on How does Google make money from Gmail, the google calendar, drive or other services when used with third party front ends? 1 week ago:
The knowledge of what you do, where you work, who you talk to, what you eat, who your doctor is, where you shop, everywhere you go, what diseases or disorders you have, what kind of clothes you wear, what your family life is like, etc, are incredibly valuable to a company trying to show you ads. It doesn’t matter if you don’t see them through Gmail. Google owns so much of the internet, you’ll see them eventually.
Get your email from an email company, not an ad company.
- Comment on The consequences (of my actions) have been extreme 1 week ago:
Then it’s not behind their back. That’s the bad part here. It’s not making fun of your friends, it’s secretly making fun of your friends. That’s the difference between “all in good fun”, and “being an asshole”.
- Comment on The consequences (of my actions) have been extreme 1 week ago:
If you have a secret group chat where you make fun of your friends behind their backs, then you’re an awful piece of shit. I don’t care if it’s not solely dedicated to making fun of people. If you do it enough that your friend group ostracizes you when they find out, then you deserve to be ostracized. Why are you defending this behavior? Do you do this?
- Comment on The consequences (of my actions) have been extreme 2 weeks ago:
This was not private. This was a group of assholes laughing behind their friends’ backs at their expense. It was secret, but not private.
- Comment on The consequences (of my actions) have been extreme 2 weeks ago:
Good. Don’t be an asshole to your friends behind their backs. That’s trashy behavior, and you deserve to lose your friends if you do it.
- Comment on The consequences (of my actions) have been extreme 2 weeks ago:
Derek sounds like a cool guy.
- Comment on X88B88 is the word "voodoo" with a reflection. 2 weeks ago:
Don’t put your dark magic on me.
- Comment on X88B88 is the word "voodoo" with a reflection. 2 weeks ago:
As a large language model…
- Comment on Definitely didn't waste half an hour making this 2 weeks ago:
- Ticonderoga is the Cadillac of pencils.
- Comment on AI Programming Assistant Tells User to Stop Being Lazy and Learn to Code 2 weeks ago:
Good advice.
